Hi,
I'm looking for locking program for HTC P3300. I tried 4 applications but with no luck:
S2U - works OK but with some power drain (about 10% of battery at night - 8 hours, device in standby). With no S2U installed my PDA is fully charged after night.
S2U2 - the same like S2U
DeviceLock - no power drain, but doesn't work if device is switched off with hardware power off button, with SPB Pocket Plus power off shortcut it works OK.
pLock - the same like DeviceLock.
Could you recommend any really working program? I want two features only - no power drain and autolocking after wake-up.
Thanks
try batterystatus, 2nd or 3rd tab has device lock. If you choose, it wi activate automaticaly when its powered down (by time) or by pressing the off button.
Thanks for your suggestion. I'm testing this program now (beta version). Lock works very well - after power off with hardware button and with shortcut. If there will be no symptoms of power drain I'll be happy with BatteryStatus.
By the way - I wonder if there is possibility not to display BS today plugin and have lock and CPU scalar enabled, because I noticed that displaying more indicators (memory usage, battery state, SD free space...) can drain battery faster.
varvocel said:
By the way - I wonder if there is possibility not to display BS today plugin and have lock and CPU scalar enabled, because I noticed that displaying more indicators (memory usage, battery state, SD free space...) can drain battery faster.
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I guess you can reduce the stuff to only the batterybar (1st or/and 2nd tab), but not clear it totaly. How do you notice the batterydrain? You need batterystatus (powerdrain monitor) tot see this don't you?
I use BS too and can live with the batterydrain (not noticeable in regard to all the extra stuff (overclock) it provides for me). Maybe others have further suggestions...
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I guess you can reduce the stuff to only the batterybar (1st or/and 2nd tab), but not clear it totaly.
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I've turned off all indicators (battery too) and cpu scaling works - I noticed that when system is idle LCD starts flicking (like always in low CPU frequency)
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How do you notice the batterydrain? You need batterystatus (powerdrain monitor) tot see this don't you?
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I observed increased power drain in SPB Pocket Plus simply turning indicators on and leaving device for about 8 hours at night in standby mode, then the same with indicators off. I'll try the same procedure with BatteryStatus.
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Hi,
I am looking for a screensaver clock for my XDAIIs for when the device is switched off.
Does anyone know of any, freeware preferably?
Thanks martin0818
Spb Time http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/time/?en
Dockware/Dockware Pro http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/fg/dockware.htm
cheers.
These seem to be for when the device is in the cradle or switched on.
I am looking for one to display when i switch the phone off. eg i switch the power off my phone and then it displays the screensaver clock - all of the buttons are still locked until i switch it back on. I previously had a Nokia 6100 that had this feature.
any ideas...
Thanks in advance martin0818
Spb Time will automatically launch after x number of minutes of inactivity, with the exception of customizable programs that are running (i.e. Sprite Backup or CPU-intensive applications, etc).
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I am looking for one to display when i switch the phone off. eg i switch the power off my phone and then it displays the screensaver clock - all of the buttons are still locked until i switch it back on. I previously had a Nokia 6100 that had this feature.
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When you switch the XDA off, it's off. The screen is off. it won't display anything, including a screensaver...
The XDA does not work like a 'normal' phone in this respect. If it did, you'd run out of battery very quickly cos the display is so much bigger than a normal phone.
ok..thanks anyway
I'm looking for an application or something that will keep the backlight off at all times while it's running. Sometimes late at night out in the country I don't need it to be able to see the screen very well and I'd like to save battery power as much as possible. Battery life is a constant concern when you're away from AC outlets.
The app is called LUMOS (it changes the backlight setting depending on the light around you) you can find it here it saves a lot of battery also NueDynamicClock is a must have if you want longer battery life I hope it helps
I have a similar problem - how do I prevent the backlight timeout from triggering ?
I use g-watch countdowntimer and when using that I wan the backlight to remain on but unless I keep touching the screen the backlight goes off after a few minutes.
Is there a registry key or something I can change to make g-watch an exception ? - I know my TOmTOm works fine
Sorry to clarify, I have found my problem is not backlight related and hence will start new thread.
I was thinking that since the OLED screen does not use any backlight, lighting up a few pixels just to form a little led blinking would not tax too much the battery.
I don't know, however, whether waking-up the phone entails significant increase in battery usage. A middle solution would be to wake it every 2 minutes for 10 seconds in order to display the notification and the let it sleep again.
What do you think?
Sounds good good but im not to sure about that... there was another post about having the illuminating back button flash, maybe both menu and back buttons.. alternating between each one with a speed setting?
i love the idea, but the screen is 'off' for a reason...
first of all i don't know if oled screens can 'burn' (meaning the pixels are still showing when they are suppost to be 'off', because they have been 'on' to long)
Also, if it means the chips that control the screen have to be active instead of inactive, your battery drain may be kinda big....
I don't know that OLED would have burn-in (that's more a CRT thing), but they might well burn out - they do have a finite lifespan.
But you're probably right, it would likely mean that the phone couldn't completely go to sleep.
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I don't know that OLED would have burn-in (that's more a CRT thing), but they might well burn out - they do have a finite lifespan.
But you're probably right, it would likely mean that the phone couldn't completely go to sleep.
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well, in such a case we could rotate randomly the pixels to be lit up (as in real old time screensavers).
With regard to out of sleep battery consumption you have a point. Maybe we could just wake it up for a few seconds and then have it sleep again. In any case if we assume that the major battery draw is the typically screen, then such an arrangement might prove to be acceptable - at least in some cases.
Why not use the backlight on the menu and back button? They shouldn't use too much power or get burned?
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Why not use the backlight on the menu and back button? They shouldn't use too much power or get burned?
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Yes - I agree this is a very good alternative - yet I do not know how bright these leds are.
Nevertheless, I noticed that the screen is able to display a big animated icon of the battery charging even when the phone is off! (I just received it and I put it in the charger). Thus, I assume there is some kind of control of what the display shows without having to wake-up the system (at least the whole of it).
If this is the case, we could have some led like notification even when the android is in sleep!!
what you say is not necessarily true.. that icon is when the phone is off. which does not translate to being able to display something on a sleeping phone when it is on.. two totaly different issues ..
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what you say is not necessarily true.. that icon is when the phone is off. which does not translate to being able to display something on a sleeping phone when it is on.. two totaly different issues ..
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True. I will check whether it is displayed when the phone is on sleep (still off and charging). It implies, however, that the screen can be controlled (also?) independently of the OS.
(all in all the touch buttons respond / light up when touched though the phone is off and charging).
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Very funny topic one year later !
NoLED, BLN ...
The community is very powerfull !
Thank you all
Guys, just search NoLed on market and it's already made ^^. However, following neldar thread on BLN, NoLed use about 10% more battery per hour than off screen. BLN which is found in most of the kernel ( Except damianGTO one ) use about 1% more battery per hour and turn on the backlight of the touch key. Hope this will help you
Since we need to have the screen turned on to keep wifi/gps etc. running, and there are a few apps that would ideally run in the background with the screen off; to save battery power (and burn in?) it would be nice to have the AMOLED screen display just a black image.
Is there any app out there that just displays a black screen and maybe ignores all but a specific input?
At the moment I just zoom into a black image in the browser, but I can't put the phone in my pocket like that.
(I tried searching for this, but it was beyond my google-fu.)
You dont have to keep the screen on to run either my gps is always on and it neva disconnects also ive spent many nights going to sleep leaving my wifi connected and its neva disconnected either
Yup. If you haven't set WiFi to switch off after 15mins, it should carry on running.
By doing what you proposed, you'll decrease battery life drastically as you'd effectively be disabling the chips sleep mode by keeping it running 100%. With that, only the screen switches off and everything else including Android keeps running. Any application holding a partial awake lock can achieve this.
Lock delay; an app to control the default screen-lock options allows this.
For instance, if you set the initial screen timeout to 2 minutes but standby/lock to 10 minutes in the settings, the screen will switch off after 2mins idling, but the rest of the phone will still be running incl. WiFi/GPS. You can enable a lock/pattern or no lock at all where you press any key including menu/trackpad and it'll come back on in the same place you left it, without any lock. If the phone idles for 10mins, it'll activate the screen lock and place the phone in the standard sleep mode. The max delay you can set the latter to is 24 hours.
I wouldn't advise avoiding the sleep mode unless required in specific circumstances. Battery loss will be drastic; I found out unintentionally when activating this option at the beginning.
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Thanks th3, that should do what I want. I don't intend to leave it unattended, it's just for when don't need the screen on while an app is doing something.
Just curious, for extreme phone users during the workday, has anyone tried using the M8 all day on 'Power save' mode ? Not the extreme mode, but the regular Power saver ?
How much does this mode save on battery life, compared to not using it ? But my typical settings, are no GPS, no Bluetooth, set screen to 50% - 75%, Greenify set to hibernate a lot of background apps.